🇻🇪🇷🇺Venezuela’s skies safeguarded with 5,000 Russian-made MANPADS
🚀 President Nicolás Maduro has launched a sweeping new air defense network, deploying 5,000 Russian-made Igla-S MANPADS across Venezuela. He declared the system a "national air shield," positioned to counter any potential US aggression.
🗣 “Any act of aggression will be met with immediate defense,” Maduro warned, saying the systems are positioned at key strategic points to protect the nation’s airspace and sovereignty.
The Igla-S forms part of Venezuela’s layered defense network alongside S-300VM, Buk-M2E, and Su-30MK2V fighters — a deterrent built over years of cooperation with Russia.
After years of sanctions and pressure, Caracas is sending a clear message: Venezuela won’t be an easy target.
🇻🇪🇷🇺Venezuela’s skies safeguarded with 5,000 Russian-made MANPADS
🚀 President Nicolás Maduro has launched a sweeping new air defense network, deploying 5,000 Russian-made Igla-S MANPADS across Venezuela. He declared the system a "national air shield," positioned to counter any potential US aggression.
🗣 “Any act of aggression will be met with immediate defense,” Maduro warned, saying the systems are positioned at key strategic points to protect the nation’s airspace and sovereignty.
The Igla-S forms part of Venezuela’s layered defense network alongside S-300VM, Buk-M2E, and Su-30MK2V fighters — a deterrent built over years of cooperation with Russia.
After years of sanctions and pressure, Caracas is sending a clear message: Venezuela won’t be an easy target.
Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report. So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives?
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